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| | Infants' Home (Ashfield, New South Wales) - Australian Women Corporate entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | It was the first organisation to move from residential care to long day care in the early 1970s and the third family day care scheme to commence operations in New South Wales. |
 | | The members of the first committee comprised Mrs E B Parnell, President, Mrs Julia Bensusan, Secretary, Mrs G F Wise, Treasurer, Mrs (later Lady) E Deas Thomson (daughter of Governor Bourke and wife of the Colonial Secretary), Lady Murray, Mrs Henry Moore, Mrs Fischer, Mrs Alexander, Mrs Holt, Mrs John Smith and Mrs St John. |
 | | Sources used to compile this entry: Lorne-Johnson, Susan Betrayed and forsaken: the official history of the Infants' Home, Ashfield founded in 1874 as the Sydney Foundling Institution,Sydney: The Infants' Home, Ashfield, 2001. |
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